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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte stressed he did not and would not interfere in the ongoing investigation of the National Bureau of Investigation on the Leyte police officials who were involved in the killing of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa. Even as he initially expressed support for policemen who were involved in the alleged “rubout” of Mayor Espinosa, he told the NBI to go on and file cases against the policemen if they […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of northern California, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said. The US Geological Survey said there was “a low likelihood of casualties and damage” from the quake, which hit on the Mendocino fault. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat. The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 6:49 am (1449 GMT), was located 97 […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – by Marlowe HOOD Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the last three decades, and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body warned Thursday. The population of the world’s tallest land mammal dropped to below 100,000 in 2015, mainly due to shrinking habitat and illegal hunting, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reported. The group added 742 newly-discovered birds to the global […]
ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) – by Karam al-Masri with Sara Hussein in Beirut Syria’s army battled to take more ground from rebels in Aleppo Thursday after President Bashar al-Assad said victory for his troops in the city would be a turning point in the war. Three weeks into a major offensive to retake all of Aleppo, government troops have captured about 85 percent of territory rebels controlled in the city’s east and were continuing to push […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has issued Wednesday (December 7) an executive order (EO) creating a 25-man panel that will review the 1987 Constitution for possible amendments. “As to the provision of the Constitution to be amended, the President has issued the other day an executive order creating the committee for consultative study of the Constitution,” Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said Thursday (December 8). “Basically, it’s a consultative committee to review the 1987 Constitution to […]
(Eagle News)– The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said it would revoke the unilateral ceasefire it had declared if the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) will not release all detained rebels by January 2017. “The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines is ready to terminate the August 28, 2016 unilateral declaration of interim ceasefire in case no amnesty and release of all political prisoners would occur in December or January,” CPP founder […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte made the assurance on Thursday that Vice-President Leni Robredo would remain in her post “until the end of her term.” During an interview at the groundbreaking of the Bicol International airport on Thursday (December 8), Duterte dismissed Robredo’s fears that there was ever a plot to remove her as Vice-President. “I will assure Leni and the Bicol region that she will be there until the end of her […]
(Eagle News) — Three of the familiar faces of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s NET 25 have won media awards recently. The first was Actress Gladys Reyes, host of NET 25’s “Moments.” Reyes won as “Best Female Host” in the recent Aliw Awards held on November 30. The next are two of NET 25’s news and current affairs anchors who bagged two of the prestigious Gawad Pilipino Media People’s Choice Awards. They are Ellaine Fuentes, host of […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Maaari raw maalis sa posisyon si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte dahil sa pagtatanggol niya sa mga pulis na sangkot sa pagpatay kay Mayor Rolando Espinosa at sa kaniyang kapwa inmate. Ayon kay Sen. Leila De Lima, maari aniyang ma- impeach ang pangulo dahil sa “betrayal of public trust.” Responsibilidad aniya ni Duterte bilang Chief Executive na ipatupad ang batas at bahagi aniya nito ang pagpapanagot sa mga mga maysala. Naniniwala rin […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines –The Commission on Elections is calling on the public to take advantage of the upcoming Yuletide break and participate in the ongoing voter registration for the 23 October 2017 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections which started last 07 November 2016 and will end on 29 April 2017. Applications for registration, transfer, transfer with reactivation, reactivation, change/correction of entries and inclusion/reinstatement of records in the list of voters will be received by the Offices of the Election […]
by Angus Mackinnon Agence France Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) – Matteo Renzi bowed out as Italian prime minister on Wednesday with a combination of jokes, regrets and a strong hint that he wants to lead his party into an early election battle. Forced to quit after a crushing referendum defeat, Renzi formally submitted his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday evening. The presidential palace said political consultations on forming a caretaker government would […]
by Gohar Abbas Agence France Presse SADDHA BATOLNI, Pakistan (AFP) – A Pakistani plane carrying 48 people crashed Wednesday in the country’s mountainous north and burst into flames killing everyone on board, authorities said, in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the nation’s history. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight PK661 came down after one of its two turboprop engines failed while travelling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad, the civil aviation authority said. Rescuers, including […]
